Should India build its future more around its own traditions, or around Western-style modernity?

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Its own traditions vs Western-style modernity

meeraiyer · Answer

[Its own traditions] There's something in me that lights up walking through a centuries-old temple or hearing a classical raga that no glass tower or imported trend has ever made me feel -- I want my country's future to still feel unmistakably, proudly its own.

riyasharma · Answer

[Western-style modernity] Economic historians note that Japan and South Korea's most successful post-war growth periods came from actively blending, not choosing between, traditional social structures and Western-style industrial and institutional modernization -- the two aren't necessarily an either/or choice in practice.

Should India build its future more around its own traditions, or around Western-style modernity?

Its own traditions

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